Creative Projects
 

inter-arts collaborations:

note on Open Circle

Open Circle was formed in 1985 by painters, writers and composers as a cross-media collaborative and international arts organisation.
 
 

work in translation:

Through Open Circle I met poet and translator Serge Baudot who has translated over sixty of my poems, some of which have been published in French literary magazines.  These translations made it possible for me to participate in poetry festivals in Paris and Nantes.   Serge Baudot is editor and translator of Six Poetes Ecossais,(Telo Martius 1992).  1994 Literaturförderpreis winner, Mirko Bonné, has translated a small selection into German.  An even smaller selection was translated into Russian by the poets of the Rostov-on-Don Writers' Union after a Glasgow City Council Twinning Cultural Delegation to Rostov in May 1991.  These poems appeared in their journal Word.
 
 

THE BLANK PAGE  off  off the page well off off and far or not so  far  other than the image of its emptiness (which is something to celebrate) the words are in the wind and whispering fast so you have to listen still and chase ah! listen to the page with no words listen to the page with no words feel the silence hear the wind

LA PAGE BLANCHE en dehors en dehors de la page bien en dehors en dehors et loin ou pas aussi loin que ça différent de l'image de son vide (ce qui  est quelque chose à célébrer) les mots sont dans le vent ils chuchotent vite alors il vous faut écouter en silence et à l'affût ah! écoutez la page vide de mots écoutez la page vide de mots sentez le silence entendez le vent

French translation: Serge Baudot
 

artist books:

Glasgow Street/Boulevard St Germain.Lithographic images on hand-made paper. Éditions Preuves d'Artistes, Paris 1992. See interarts collaborations.

Touchings. Éditions Pré Nian, Rétaud, Guenrouët, France 1998.  See interarts collaborations.
 

performance art:

Solo:
 

• At present I am performing a voice/percussion piece called West Coast,based on poems of mine written on the coastlines of Argyll.

• I also offer standard non-performance-based poetry readings.

Throwing Poems:

Throwing Poems,  a now disbanded company, was formed in the early 1990s.  We consisted of  George Lyle, a jazz musician on double bass; Elspeth Dickie, movement, and myself as writer and voice of our performances.  We worked with visual artists, Bertrand Bracaval and Stan Bell on two of our Glasgow City Council Dept of Performing Arts-funded performances, Antahkarana1994 and Atlantics1995 respectively.  The intervening performance we staged was called, Ways to Go and performed in the St Mungo Museum of Religion and Art in Glasgow.   I Might go back to doing work of this kind of work in the 'sometime' future.